State v. Patrick James Bailey

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal out of Kootenai County from the sentence of life in the custody of the Idaho Board of Correction for the crime of committing lewd conduct upon the Defendant’s ten-year-old daughter, who was so severely impaired by autism that she could not speak a full sentence or describe anything that had happened to her. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

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Factual Background.

On October 26, 2014, the mother (“Mother”) of a severely autistic, ten-year-old daughter came home and discovered Patrick Bailey (“Defendant”), the man with whom she had been living with for…